Ingredient dictionary
Chicken meat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chicken meat is a kind of chicken. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 17,309 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 213 kcal and 29 g protein.
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Does chicken meat contain an allergen?
Chicken meat is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is chicken meat vegan?
No. Chicken meat is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does chicken meat have on a label?
On European labels it is “viande de poulet” in French, “Pouletfleisch” in German and “Carne de pollo” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- viande de poulet, viande de poule
- German
- Pouletfleisch, Hühnerfleisch
- Spanish
- Carne de pollo
- Italian
- carne di pollo
- Dutch
- kippenvlees
- Portuguese
- carne de frango
- Polish
- Mięso z kurczaka, mięso kurczęce
- Swedish
- kycklingkött
- Danish
- Kylling
- Norwegian
- kyllingkjøtt
- Finnish
- kananliha
- Hungarian
- csirkehús
- Romanian
- carne de pui
- Croatian
- pileće meso, pilećeg mesa
- Turkish
- tavuk eti
Which foods contain chicken meat?
Open Food Facts lists chicken meat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 17,309 products, most often ready meals, poultry and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 7,262 · United States 3,411 · United Kingdom 1,663 · Germany 1,652.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chicken meat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in chicken meat?
Chicken meat has about 213 kcal per 100 g, with 29 g protein, 2.1 g carbohydrate and 9.9 g fat. The figures are for food 36005 in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 2.8 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.4 g, energy 892 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 36005. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is chicken meat?
Chicken meat is a kind of chicken.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Chicken meat
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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